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lived by the sluggish waters of the lower Rhine, 

 or had just crossed to the eastern coast of Britain. 15 



The fort was in shape a parallelogram, some two 

 hundred and fifty feet long and half as wide. It 

 was more completely finished than the majority of 

 its kind, though little or no iron was used in its 

 construction. At each corner was a two-storied 

 loop-holed block-house to act as a bastion. The 

 stout log-cabins were arranged in straight lines, so 

 that their outer sides formed part of the wall, the 

 spaces between them being filled with a high stock- 

 ade, made of heavy squared timbers thrust upright 

 into the ground, and bound together within by a 

 horizontal stringer near the top. They were loop- 

 holed like the block-houses. The heavy wooden 

 gates, closed with stout bars, were flanked without 

 by the block-houses and within by small windows 

 cut in the nearest cabins. The houses had sharp 

 sloping roofs, made of huge clapboards, and these 

 great wooden slabs were kept in place by long poles, 

 bound with withes to the rafters. In case of dire 

 need each cabin was separately defensible. When 

 danger threatened, the cattle were kept in the open 

 space in the middle. 



Three other similar forts or stations were built 

 about the same time as Boonesborough, namely: 

 Harrodstown, Boiling Springs, and St. Asaphs, 

 better known as Logan's Station, from its founder's 



15 When the block-house and palisade inclosed the farm of 

 a single settler the "tun," in its still earlier sense, was even 

 more nearly reproduced. 



